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Melissa Mesku

29 days

i make a lot more sense if you envision chaotic-good and chaotic-neutral as a spectrum, and i am a hot twink in a woman’s body lying on that spectrum

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

2 years

@shhelleywong same! when i asked for that same payment, they came back and said ‘never mind, we are only taking free reprints’ …then came back again and said ‘ok how’s $500.’ top textbook publisher out there hustling like a street vendor after you walk away

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Melissa Mesku

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9 months

@nakfourium @anymnesis 100% of the replies are saying commit to her anyway. forget them. love prob comes easier to you so you don’t view it as scarce—good. only you know the price and if you can realistically pay. i’m in the same boat, unwilling to pay the price and aware of what i’m losing. rock on

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Melissa Mesku

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8 months

@aylazeef if it was obsession, Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux if it lay underneath language, An Apprenticeship, Lispector if u homewrecked - Blow Your House Down, Gina Frangello if it was mostly analytical pining - Mating, Norman Rush if it happened in an abbey - Matrix, Lauren Groff

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8 months

@TylerAlterman i had ~10 years where i was unstoppable. lived to impress myself, laid charm and warmth on everyone, tried new things with full self and presence, reached for goals far higher than the stuff they’re made of, ignored bullshit, told myself just don’t look down and you won’t fall

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Melissa Mesku

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7 months

stopped off the highway in big sur to visit the henry miller library and was rewarded with a copy of @countyhwy

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

8 years

The civilized mind is already colonized, inhumane, flawed. That we are creating the next world—the internet—in our own image, is terrifying

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

5 years

In which I roll up Barthes, Maggie Nelson, felony art vandalism, kintsugi, Greek myth and John Locke's socks into a Katamari Damacy ball and smoke it. My latest, in Lapham's Quarterly

Restoring the Ship of Theseus | Melissa Mesku

Is a paradox still the same after its parts have been replaced?

www.laphamsquarterly.org

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Melissa Mesku

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5 years

@MoiraDonegan ok fine then I do

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9 months

@tweetwithashlee @blursluts44 all that shoplifting i did must’ve put em out of business 😅

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

3 years

if you think lots of teachers are teaching that your shared country is rotten, is that not a sign that something is pretty rotten about your country? and if you wanted to fix it, wouldn’t your first step be to try to understand what would possess teachers of all people to do that

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

4 months

reframing the loneliness crisis as partially a courage crisis. hours in front of screens means hours of rumination without action, which is the basis of depression and also further colonizes the mind with the addled thoughts of lonely screen junkies who lack in courage

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Melissa Mesku

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5 years

“What, really, are we doing—what the fuck is this life, what is it for, where is it going? What really matters? I only trust people who are addled by this question, even if I fucking hate their answer.” My latest, on Jade Sharma, at @lithub

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

The night I met Jade Sharma, I saw her verbally shit all over the guest of the evening, Paul Auster, at a literary event in New York. From the back of the audience, she stood and assailed him at le…

lithub.com

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Melissa Mesku

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8 months

@TylerAlterman undergoing a system rebuild so had to power down. can’t stay winning forever

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

In defense of lost causes

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6 months

coolest way to view the eclipse is just in the dappled light filtered through trees

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Melissa Mesku

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7 years

Ma Anand Sheela is one of the most fascinating female characters of our time. My latest #WildWildCountry

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Melissa Mesku

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9 years

Personally I've found Rush fans @rushtheband to be the most intelligent people I've known. If Rush were a political party, I'd actually vote

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

6 years

this podcast has restored my sanity, anna is a national treasure even if she dresses like a hessian Dave Gahan

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

Looking for women in tech—because we need more of us! Plus I'm sourcing #womenintech for some upcoming articles—DM me http://t.co/jGAk6F4J40

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

2 months

hegelian egirls… of course it’s about platforming the worst of both sides. the whole thing is predicated on hot girls doing philosophy and thus was only ever going to be a spectacle of hype and vibes

sanje horah

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2 months

i was one of the core "Hegelian egirls", and i left the Hegelian Egirl Council a week ago. my concern is that the HEC project claims to do be doing political mediation but is effectively platforming the worst of both sides and lending them intellectual legitimacy. i sincerely

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Melissa Mesku

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5 years

Melissa Mesku fucked around with debt and multiple shit-pay careers before she figured out in her 30s how to afford to write: by sucking dick in order to afford to learn programming so as to get an engineering job in order to afford to write on Sundays 💥

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

4 years

@annakhachiyan hot girl here but tbh I’m a man at heart and a gross incel one at that

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

Thanks Gawker workers for shaking up the dull, underpaid landscape for writers & digital creators #GawkerUnion http://t.co/b0V9t1JkJp

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Melissa Mesku

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2 years

a thing that kills me is that a sense of real belonging in a real community would solve a shitload of people’s mental/emotional issues yet it is nearly impossible to find in america

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

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words are concepts. i grew up reading the dictionary trying to learn all of the concepts. i study dying languages for the concepts. still i was 40 years old before i heard of the word ‘interoception.’ it blew my mind. single-handedly unlocked an entire level of experience for me

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

5 years

@Sibundo @erinisaway if you think genocide is too strong a word for this, see . a long, sad history of non-indigenous trying to steal the land for its many resources, thereby destroying it and the people who've always lived on it

President Bolsonaro 'declares war' on Brazil's Indigenous peoples - Survival responds

Jair Bolsonaro has started his Presidency in the worst possible way for the Indigenous peoples of Brazil.

www.survivalinternational.org

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

8 months

@saderotica sally rooney

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

7 years

Just negotiated a raise & got it; in immediate hindsight realized how much higher I could have gone. A reminder to everyone: know your worth

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

8 years

No doctrine has a monopoly on humane values —Amin Maalouf, In The Name of Identity: Violence and The Need to Belong

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

5 years

I went to a @Bud_Smith reading and sat in the back texting the whole time like a total dick. the guy sitting next to me was doing a good job ignoring how rude I was and then he got up and went to the stage because he was bud smith

Aaron Burch

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5 years

This is probably the ideal way to interact with me at AWP, tbqh — make eye contact multiple times without ever realizing its me.

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Melissa Mesku

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8 years

when righteousness manifests itself as a stampede of wild bison

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

5 years

my superpower is being moderately functional while never forgetting that everything is futile

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

may all hackathons be this honest about their true value @stupidhackathon

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

3 years

@raviddice Novellas with female protagonist outsiders you never encounter in fiction: in Zazen by @VanessaVeselka , a dreamy terrorist; in Signs Preceding the End of the World, an illegal Mexican migrant on a mission; in Problems, a hilarious Indian-American heroin addict

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

The internet I remember from 1997 is surf-able again: simulator from @rhizome

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

7 years

Yesterday I saw an all gender bathroom in the Sacramento airport and I was stoned and I was so happy I cried

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

Even just applying to the @stupidhackathon is an exercise in absurdity

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

8 years

In New York even Zen masters are addled with anxiety

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

"What's going on? A bunch of Leninists?" overheard in the line rn for @lennyletter Lenny IRL @HousingWorksBks

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

7 years

but avoiding writing is the biggest part of writing

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

22 days

being early 40s is weird because it turns out that no matter what people did before we all kind of ended up the same. the lost, the fucked up, the conventionals, the achievers, we all wash up on the island of huh well shit

Locked-Up Capital

@lockedupcap

23 days

Being late 30s is weird bc there’s a mixture of people who took risks and made it, people who took risks and didn’t, and people who followed a prescribed path

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Melissa Mesku

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9 years

Let the countdown begin… Rush @rushtheband at Madison Sq Garden on 6/29! http://t.co/HjvExxcp4C

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

3 years

I am an open book* *im laying flat, face down, and if you turn me over you’ll get sentences that don’t make any fucking sense

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

4 months

How I met some people I dated: 1. I stalked him since the 5th grade 2. mutual professor connected us 3. customer got my number while I was at work 4. straight up told dude he was hot and asked him out 5. bff i was visiting said 'i can’t hang out tomorrow so go bang my friend' 🧵

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

5 years

My latest, in @hobartpulp : a long, wild, teenage true story that surprises even me

The Pastor and Marguerite by Melissa Mesku

Near the end of 7th grade, Marguerite started wearing steel toe Doc Martens and dressing in all black. At lunch, she sat in front of the school office, chanting demoniacally. At P.E., she cursed and...

www.hobartpulp.com

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

2 months

i only want to read books by people with interesting minds, solid command of their craft, who are more advanced than me. can we get a rating system already

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

8 years

Looking for diverse perspectives on work/tech/startups/freelancing @NewWorkerMag . cc @WritersofColor

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 months

@CarissasNewLife bless. when i go to people’s houses and i see their kids having books, just books in the house, books they haven’t even read, my heart just hurts

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

7 months

you guys

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

3 years

this incredible flash fiction by @mwektaehtabr has the most impressive use of form I’ve seen all year:

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

7 years

This airbnb I'm staying at is like if instagram knocked up a house in palm springs

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

6 years

This weird-ass thing I've been working on for a year just came out, enjoy

➰➰➰

@many_loops

6 years

What strange thing is this? The publication that deals solely in recursion has just launched:

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Melissa Mesku

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2 years

next time you’re running your own errands remember hedy lamarr sent **her movie stand-in** to take her place in her divorce proceedings

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

2 years

@DA_Banks sippin on gypsum & juice, laid back

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

4 years

masks are dope first time I went outside with no makeup since my dumb ass started wearing makeup ten dumb ass years ago

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

6 years

just realized maybe it's not that I'm introverted, it's that most people are shitty and talking to them is actually awful

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

'Space Oddity' was covered from space; David Bowie called it "the most poignant version of the song ever created."

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

8 years

oh shit, I should have known feminism would become a programming language

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

3 years

I’m in a writers’ group for the first time! about to find out what they thought of the beginning of a novel I’m writing! if I don’t follow up in an hour it’s because I died, send help

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

1 month

@itinerantfog this was amazing to read, very relatable. always felt that’d’ve been me had i been born male, which at least made me grateful that as a girl i was free to pursue who i wanted without fear of their feeling preyed upon. now, to undo the personality i had to create along the way…

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Melissa Mesku

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5 years

graduate school is embarrassing because everyone is too broke and insignificant to be pretentious and yet they are

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Melissa Mesku

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9 years

David Bowie by @Helengreeen

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Melissa Mesku

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3 years

anyone else out there a kind hearted, large spirited, gracious, humble person who’s somehow also made of 100% pure spite and rage?

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Melissa Mesku

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6 years

Somehow weirder in its native habitat @Desert_Oracle

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

7 years

There's a clue in the question

Robert Reich

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7 years

America is the richest nation in the world – richer than this nation has ever been. Where is this cruelty coming from?

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9 years

How to pose like a man — excellent essay on author photos & sexism in lit, by @AFilipacchi http://t.co/hUg8hA6zbU http://t.co/B1MkRA9h8b

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5 months

i think it’s more than mere jealousy. it’s the feeling of utter dismay that the world truly is full of vapid idiots with nothing to offer, yet another entry in the ledger that proves society is lost

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5 months

Pretty sure all the Twitterati scenesters throwing a fit about Honor Levy are just jealous they didn’t think of her shtick first and have the gumption/skill to capitalize on it.

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Melissa Mesku

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5 years

I’m on day 19 of not leaving the house. this is bliss. a permanent free pass to do what I always prefered to do, which is absolutely fucking nothing

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Melissa Mesku

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4 years

spend four months belaboring every word or you’re not a fan

Chelsea Hodson

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4 years

Really impressed by this Serena Stevens collage—she spent her quarantine spelling out every word of my essay "Artist Statement"

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Melissa Mesku

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5 years

my party trick is being overwhelmed and yet completely underwhelmed all at the same time

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Melissa Mesku

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7 years

anthropocene, the perfect portmanteau for anthro and obscene

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

"I hit pay dirt in my own soul."—Ann Wilson on being deeply shy and finding her singing voice on stage @AnnHeartMusic http://t.co/4JQyYJRBjt

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Melissa Mesku

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8 years

Regulation is a pain in the ass, yes, but until business stops externalizing environmental costs, we need enforceable protections @mattgaetz

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

3 years

pretty much every time I’ve bought a book of poetry it was because I had opened it at random and read something that was too too perfect but then at home one day when in need of a mess of words to drown out my own I finally read the rest of the poetry book and it fucking sucks

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Melissa Mesku

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8 years

It occurred to me that if he wins tonight Mexico will probably be the one who wants to build a wall. No, Canada. Canada will build a wall

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

5 years

i need more forgers, derelicts, layabouts, wastrels, sluggards, perjurers, fabulists, dissidents, malingerers, refuseniks, burnouts, recidivists and good-for-nothings in my life

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Melissa Mesku

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2 months

the use of hegel is a bit, all of it is a bit. this is our zeitgeist: quasi ironic signaling using high status signifiers whose referent is empty. and i don’t mean empty like the absent center of political ontology, i mean empty, like there’s nothing under the hype, no coherence

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

8 years

This year I vow to be more true to my 17 yr old self: live in a tree, get sent to prison & generally be more of an obnoxious pain in the ass

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

2 months

who the fuck even understands hegel anyway? my degree in rhetoric from berkeley showed me that philosophy and theory may as well be read like poetry: let it wash over you, these are merely metaphysical structures, they’re not load-bearing & will give way if you try to reify them

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Melissa Mesku

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2 months

we hardly need an explanation for why hegelian egirls is a smart grift. hot girls doing philosophy is the thinking man’s version of bikini wrestling. maybe the hot girls are smart and know their shit, that’s sexy. maybe they don’t, that’s also sexy. you really can’t fuck this up

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Melissa Mesku

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12. orgy at the hippie co-op 13. he dated the girls i thought were cool so i dated him but he wanted me to duet the girl part of “don’t you want me baby” at the lip sync so i dumped him. great friend tho 14. journalism class 15. another brazen here’s my number so call me maybe

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Melissa Mesku

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@InezFeltscher for a fun twist, include people whose families are "intact" yet are toxic/abusive. resulting not in fear of abandonment, but fear of connection. stuck loving someone who takes so much yet can give so little that you have to become an abandoner in order to save yourself

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

9 years

#Trump

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6 years

The education system in America is a disaster, but this is hardly the reason

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Melissa Mesku

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9 years

http://t.co/YD82ori7Uc

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Melissa Mesku

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6 years

it's always bothered me that ppl don't know the original names for the land they live on. here's a map to find out .

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5 years

overheard: "who's zizek peterson?"

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Melissa Mesku

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@a_fellow_of @TylerAlterman lol then i broke down. my old system for all its ostensible merits ran on a dark fuel, all my hatred and disappointment about people/society/civilization i channeled into proving it was possible to do better. and i did. but no one cared, and that undermined the value of it to me

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Melissa Mesku

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10 years

Happy B'day to Nikola #Tesla : still #hot as fuck after all these years! May #elonmusk finally get you a decent museum http://t.co/QNRYEO4pjF

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7 months

turns out there’s a rational-to-spiritual pipeline and it’s less like a pipeline and more like a waterslide at six flags

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Melissa Mesku

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9 years

A typeface that degrades slowly over time

The 'Memoire' Typeface Changes Like a Memory as You Use It

Memoire is a typeface that degrades with every use.

www.wired.com

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Melissa Mesku

@MelissaMesku

6 years

My latest, on the incredible essay project over at @EssayingDaily

New South Journal

@NewSouthJournal

6 years

In Which Hundreds Of People Chronicle What Happened On June 21, 2018 And I Read All Of It

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never in my life had I heard of a nanny until I moved to nyc... to see the privilege in this image you'd need the privilege of having lived in a richass place like new york

Yuh-Line Niou

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I don’t think people are really understanding this cover.

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6 months

my opinion with all due respect is that no one should offer an opinion of anything until after they turn 35 or are actually lying down in grass

Heidi N. Moore

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6 months

My opinion (with all due respect to OP) is that no one should offer an opinion of Mary Oliver until after they turn 35, or until they can regularly touch grass. Mary Oliver's poetry is about regret and loss and it will mean nothing to people who haven't experienced both of

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@BigMeanInternet if your book was truly beneath consideration, they wouldn’t have deigned to write about it. spurious garbage books go ignored by nyt every day. the fact that they wrote this, and made it a full on takedown piece, is proof the book is something to contend with

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USB typewriter http://t.co/OpF4AoWo5W http://t.co/52CKtRGxg1